{ "item_title" : "A Faith, Not a Flag", "item_author" : [" Anonymous "], "item_description" : "Hinduism has no founder, no pope and no single book. For a century, a movement has tried to make it the creed of a nation.Hinduism has been one of the most plural traditions on earth. Its poet-saints sang against priests and gatekeepers. Vivekananda brought it to the world in Chicago in 1893. Gandhi and Tagore drew from it a politics of tolerance, and Ambedkar challenged it to answer for caste. It has never had a single creed or a central authority.Hindu nationalism, defined by V. D. Savarkar and built by the RSS, set out to change that. The BJP held 2 seats in parliament in 1984. It now governs India. Over the same years came the destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya, the violence in Gujarat in 2002, and new laws on citizenship, conversion, Kashmir and Muslim endowments. Meanwhile the officially secular Indian state itself runs tens of thousands of Hindu temples. Yet in recent surveys, most Indians say their country belongs to all religions equally.A Faith, Not a Flag argues that Hinduism is a faith, not a flag, and that it is best served by independence from both nationalism and the state. It explains how Indian secularism actually works and who runs the temples, and what Hindus themselves tell researchers. It looks beyond India to Hindus in Nepal, Bali, the Caribbean, Fiji, the United States and Britain. It sets out the strongest case for Hindu nationalism fairly before making its own.Inside: A tradition without founder, pope or heresyThe bhakti saints, Vivekananda, Gandhi, Tagore and AmbedkarSavarkar, the RSS, Ayodhya and the rise of the BJPCitizenship, conversion, Kashmir and the Waqf ActWhat the Constitution says, principled distance, and who runs the templesWhat Hindus think: the Pew and Lokniti-CSDS surveysNepal from Hindu kingdom to secular republic, Bali, the Caribbean and FijiHindu Americans, and Britain after LeicesterThe strongest case for nationalism, and for separating temple and state22 maps and diagrams, a timeline, key numbers, a glossary and a full source registerFor readers of religion, Indian politics and South Asian history, and for Hindus everywhere thinking about their faith and its future.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/554/9798165546150_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "7.40", "online_price" : "7.40", "our_price" : "7.40", "club_price" : "7.40", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

Overview

Customers Also Bought

Details